Hidden inside ledu sit duel, leud, and lude, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LEDU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DUEL, LEUD and LUDE.
duel, leud, and lude tie for the highest Scrabble score from ledu at 5 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ledu produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duel, leud, and lude, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ledu. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ledu and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are duel, leud, and lude, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ledu earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in ledu produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.